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- Max and Uncle Pong are holidaying on the Jivery Coast
- Meet Captain Spinnakerears, a pirate with a problem
- Max joins the brash buccaneers on the Santa Loosetooth
- Adventure on the high seas
- Look for the missing parts of the pirate machine
- Suitable for ages 3-7
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Amazon.co.uk Review
With Max and the Pirates kids will uncover buried treasure, try on eye patches and learn how to prevent scurvy with the help of this fanciful CD-ROM. They'll also practice reading, hone spatial abilities and deductive reasoning--even dabble in French, German and Turkish if they're interested.
Like the other Max offerings from Tivola, Max and the Pirates unfolds like an interactive picture book. A woeful pirate interrupts Max's vacation: he needs help reassembling something called a "pirate machine". Once assembled, the machine will reveal who is the most terrible pirate in the world. Max agrees to board the pirate ship, the Santa Loosetooth, to help find the parts of the mysterious machine. Aboard the ship he meets some memorable characters: the Captain's daughter, Nina, a young buccaneer who punctuates her salty comments with belches; Dr. Breakwater, with his colourful Band-Aid collection; and Peter Galley, the cook whose favourite recipe is Drowned Eggs. Max travels from room to room aboard the ship. Clicking objects within each room reveals a game, a humorous moment, information or one of the ten parts needed to rebuild the pirate machine.
Like other Max programs, the delight is in the details. The doctor's bag contains fruits and vegetables: he tells Max he packs a supply to help keep scurvy at bay. The cook takes Max on an underwater seafood harvesting adventure where they encounter a Poodlefish that's propelled by its own flatulence. ("Taste as bad as they look", the cook declares). Kids can click on pirates who shout "Yo!" in different notes and record a crude , yet pirate-ly, sea shanty. We won't tell you who the pirate machine reveals to be the most dastardly pirate on the seven seas, but we can tell you that other adventures that await after the machine is rebuilt. This programme gets high marks for creativity, humour and adventuresome learning. Max and the Pirates is a treasure. --Anne Erickson, Amazon.com
Manufacturer's Description
Captain Spinnakerears is stumped: who is the most dreadful of all dreadful pirates? And what, by Neptune, is a pirate machine? Help Max tackle these and other mysteries as you tag along with Max and Uncle Pong on their Jivery Coast holiday. Help Max find all the missing parts of the mysterious pirate machine on board the Santa Loosetooth, discover the truth about wooden legs, the use of sailor's yarn, and how Jolly Rogers are made.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The theme of Max trying to find out where the missing pieces for the Pirate machine are and the various localities in which he does so, are fairly well done. The graphics could obviously be better because it takes awhile for Max to move around. However, I have a 6 year old who really likes to look for the pieces but we both find insufferable the question every two seconds "Do you want Max to go through that door/go that way etc? Yessss? Nooooo?" It should be enough just to have arrows to indicate where Max should go. Even a three year old can handle that kind of info. It really becomes trying when you have to wait to answer this question all of the time. On the positive side, I found that it was very nice that the program is offered in 4 languages - this really can make a difference for a child. If they would just take out the redundant question, the program would be much better.
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